Why did I create Salt?
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Salt exists to manage entire stacks at scale and actually does it: benchmarks dramatically faster and proven across tens of thousands of servers. It combines a fast asynchronous communication bus, a data‑driven declarative configuration layer that still executes deterministically, and an event system that enabled rapid Heartbleed mitigation. It exposes roughly 18 modular integration points, plus built‑in Docker LXC and public/private cloud control, and it reliably automates discovery, repair, and orchestration.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00Unified approach
- 3:45Snowflake servers
- 5:37Minions
- 6:15Communication
- 6:52Scale
- 7:34Normalized
- 8:33Cross management
- 8:51Modular layered
- 9:49Configuration management
- 10:59Imperative
- 11:49Declarative
- 13:08Autonomic
- 14:24Environments
- 15:13Events
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